Progressive Left: Radio Not Left Enough
They always show their true colors when it comes to freedom of speech: only if it goes along with leftist views. You never hear them complaining that the msm is too far left and unbalanced. Or that most major newspapers are left wing liberal swamps of America haters. This "think tank" says that the reason the majority of talk radio stations are conservative is because of "not enough diversity owned in the term of gender/racial/minority ownership". Sounds like communism to me.
What a crock of shiite. They're just upset because no one wants to listen to left winged fruit loop asholes on the radio. What happened to Air America? What they really don't want to address is the reason the major news network channels and cable news channels aren't conservative is because they're owned by leftist liberal shitheads. This is why Fox News is so successful, because it is the only one that doesn't slam the U.S. or the troops or constantly slant the news against the U.S.
»thinkprogress.org/2007/06/20/radio-reportREPORT: The Right Wing Domination Of Talk Radio And How To End It
The Center for American Progress and Free Press today released the first-of-its-kind statistical analysis of the political make-up of talk radio in the United States. It confirms that talk radio, one of the most widely used media formats in America, is dominated almost exclusively by onservatives.
Ultimately, these results suggest that increasing ownership diversity, both in terms of the race/ethnicity and gender of owners, as well as the number of independent local owners, will lead to more diverse programming, more choices for listeners, and more owners who are responsive to their local communities and serve the public interest.